Cooler Master V8 GTS 140mm POM Heatsink CPU Cooler Review

Full Disclosure: The product sample used in this article has been provided by Cooler Master.

Cooler Master brings their decades of experience in retail and OEM cooling solutions to the CPU cooling market with the newly released V8 GTS heatsink, model RR-V8VC-16PR-R1. Sporting a horizontal vapor chamber and enhanced-life “POM” polyoxymethylene bearing 140mm fans and a car-engine motif similar to the previous generation V10, V8 and V6/GTS coolers, the V8 GTS promises to pack a lot of performance under the hood. Benchmark Reviews has a chance to see how the first retail horizontal vapor chamber heatsink will affect CPU cooling performance in testing the Cooler Master V8 GTS 140mm CPU cooler.

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I think that the Corsair, NZXT Kraken or some other closed loop system would be the best type to use over this rather dated solution.
These CoolerMasters sure are pretty though, and who knows? With the temps. of the latest cpu’s getting less and less each generation, the closed loop systems could one day become overkill and the V8 GTS may end up being a perfect solution. Just not today.
Then again, there’s nothing like the clearance between the waterblocks of a closed loop system and the memory modules compared to something like the V8’s.